In the past, patients put their lives in the care of doctors in blind trust that the doctors would care for them. This kind of trust is no longer common particularly in the western industrialized nations but the same cannot be said about patients in Ghana and Sub-Sahara Africa. The first ...
“The doctors also take care of him[baby], but I don’t know what they do for him. When they come around, we are not allowed in so we don’t know what happens. As soon as they come to do their rounds, they will tell you to go out when they finish you can come. After the ...
Results: The prevalence of COVID-19 infection was 88.9 cases per 1000 doctor-population. Of 544 infected doctors, 59.2% were stable but symptomatic, and 1.7% were in critical condition, with a case fatality rate of 1.7%. Overall, 31.6% had recovered from their COVID-19 in...
Postinjury malaria: Experiences of doctors in Battambang Province, Cambodia. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 2005;36:811–5. . PubMed Google Scholar C Afoakwah X Deng I Onur 2018 Malaria infection among children under-five: The use of large-scale interventions in Ghana BMC Public...
Some believed that their perception of the vaccine’s effectiveness was influenced by the testimonials provided by healthcare providers as follows:“If the doctors and the nurses are saying this vaccine works then I’ll believe you. After all, it is your field and you know what you’re doing...
“Severe birth asphyxia is the leading cause of our admissions here. Sometimes too, consenting to Caesarean section, the woman will say ‘I’m waiting for my husband’. … So sometimes all these things make it difficult for the doctors and in the long run we end up receiving asphyxiated ...
doctors under the Plantwise programme. Apart from reporting directly to the national office, plant doctors also used the WhatsApp TM and the Telegram TM messaging apps to report the pest and solicit input of other plant doctors on management practices. Photographic images of the pest sent to ...
the paper shows that remittance inflow to Ghana is positively related to GDP per capita. Specifically, the evidence indicates that a 1% increase in remittance leads to an approximately 4% increase in the GDP per capita. Second, with the aid of household survey data from Ghana Statistical Service...